Illegal Adoption
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Abducted At Four, Chinese Man Reunites With Family After 21 Years, Cuts Ties With Adoptive Home
A Chinese man abducted at the age of four reunited with his birth family after 21 years through DNA testing, chose to cut ties with the family that raised him.
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Woman Who Traced Her Birth Mother To India Finds Heartbreaking Truth
Mumbai: As an Indian child adopted and raised in Sweden, Nilakshi Elizabeth Purve Jorendal, was always curious about her birth mother. Her adoptive parents were open about her background, which was “hard to miss when you are a brown girl growing up in a white country” with three white siblings, said Ms Jorendal, now 44. So in the late 1990s she...
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Mysuru Hospital Staff Arrested For Stealing Babies For Illegal Adoption
Six hospital staff in Karnataka have been charged with stealing babies and young children and selling them to childless couples in an illegal adoption racket, police said on Friday. The three men and three women, who worked as nurses and lab technicians at five private hospitals and a government-run hospital in Mysuru city, were part of a bigger, o...
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Don't arrest me, I have swine flu: Accused tells cops
When it's payback time, there is no dearth of interesting excuses. Managing trustee of Balwant Kartar Foundation (known as Preet Mandir) Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin allegedly tried to evade arrest in Pune for his involvement in illegal adoptions by pleading ill. Sources at Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, "He came with the excuse t...
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Rajitha's case exposes loopholes in adoption process
The case of eight -year-old orphan Rajitha, who was given away in illegal adoption and subsequently brought to a hospital in an extremely malnourished state, has raised questions about the process of adoption in Andhra Pradesh. While those responsible for her state have not been arrested yet, the focus for the moment is on her well-being. It must h...
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Abducted At Four, Chinese Man Reunites With Family After 21 Years, Cuts Ties With Adoptive Home
A Chinese man abducted at the age of four reunited with his birth family after 21 years through DNA testing, chose to cut ties with the family that raised him.
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Woman Who Traced Her Birth Mother To India Finds Heartbreaking Truth
Mumbai: As an Indian child adopted and raised in Sweden, Nilakshi Elizabeth Purve Jorendal, was always curious about her birth mother. Her adoptive parents were open about her background, which was “hard to miss when you are a brown girl growing up in a white country” with three white siblings, said Ms Jorendal, now 44. So in the late 1990s she...
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Mysuru Hospital Staff Arrested For Stealing Babies For Illegal Adoption
Six hospital staff in Karnataka have been charged with stealing babies and young children and selling them to childless couples in an illegal adoption racket, police said on Friday. The three men and three women, who worked as nurses and lab technicians at five private hospitals and a government-run hospital in Mysuru city, were part of a bigger, o...
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Don't arrest me, I have swine flu: Accused tells cops
When it's payback time, there is no dearth of interesting excuses. Managing trustee of Balwant Kartar Foundation (known as Preet Mandir) Sardar Joginder Singh Bhasin allegedly tried to evade arrest in Pune for his involvement in illegal adoptions by pleading ill. Sources at Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said, "He came with the excuse t...
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Rajitha's case exposes loopholes in adoption process
The case of eight -year-old orphan Rajitha, who was given away in illegal adoption and subsequently brought to a hospital in an extremely malnourished state, has raised questions about the process of adoption in Andhra Pradesh. While those responsible for her state have not been arrested yet, the focus for the moment is on her well-being. It must h...
